Characterization of pollution events observed at Schauinsland, Germany, using CO and its stable isotopes

Valérie Gros; P. Jöckel; C. A.M. Brenninkmeijer; T. Röckmann; F. Meinhardt; R. Graul

doi:10.1016/S1352-2310(02)00144-9

Characterization of pollution events observed at Schauinsland, Germany, using CO and its stable isotopes

Valérie Gros
, P. Jöckel
, C. A.M. Brenninkmeijer
, T. Röckmann
, F. Meinhardt
, R. Graul

Max Planck Institute for Chemistry
Federal Environmental Agency, Germany

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review

Abstract

CO concentration and its isotopic composition (¹³C, ¹⁴C, ¹⁷O and ¹⁸O) are used to characterize air pollution events observed at Schauinland, Germany, in August 2000. After determination of the background signal, we could identify and characterize five pollution events. Particularly, ¹⁴CO and δ¹⁸O variations help to determine the nature of the pollution source (fossil fuel or biomass combustion) and its origin (local or regional/continental). By using a box model, further information about the age of the polluted air mass is derived. We particularly establish that one polluted air mass was about 10 days old and that this event was due to long-range transport of products emitted from forest fires in Canada.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2831-2840
Number of pages	10
Journal	Atmospheric Environment
Volume	36
Issue number	17
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/S1352-2310(02)00144-9
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2002

Funding

We would like to thank Maya Bräunlich for her participation in the intensive campaign, W. Hanewacker for his careful analysis of the samples and S. Assonov for help in the 17 O measurement. We acknowledge P. Bergamaschi for providing results from his model study, C.M. Spivakovsky for providing her OH fields and A. Volz-Thomas for continued interest. Two anonymous reviewers are kindly acknowledged for their constructive remarks. We are grateful to the European Community for support via the project CO-OH-Europe (ENV4-CT96-0318) and the Marie Curie Fellowship of V. Gros (EVK2-CT-1999-50003).

Keywords

Biomass burning
Box model
Carbon monoxide
Fossil fuel combustion
Isotopic composition

Access to Document

10.1016/S1352-2310(02)00144-9

Cite this

@article{272b666248b84e329c521da3f539dd82,

title = "Characterization of pollution events observed at Schauinsland, Germany, using CO and its stable isotopes",

abstract = "CO concentration and its isotopic composition (13C, 14C, 17O and 18O) are used to characterize air pollution events observed at Schauinland, Germany, in August 2000. After determination of the background signal, we could identify and characterize five pollution events. Particularly, 14CO and δ18O variations help to determine the nature of the pollution source (fossil fuel or biomass combustion) and its origin (local or regional/continental). By using a box model, further information about the age of the polluted air mass is derived. We particularly establish that one polluted air mass was about 10 days old and that this event was due to long-range transport of products emitted from forest fires in Canada.",

keywords = "Biomass burning, Box model, Carbon monoxide, Fossil fuel combustion, Isotopic composition",

author = "Val{\'e}rie Gros and P. J{\"o}ckel and Brenninkmeijer, \{C. A.M.\} and T. R{\"o}ckmann and F. Meinhardt and R. Graul",

year = "2002",

month = jan,

day = "1",

doi = "10.1016/S1352-2310(02)00144-9",

language = "English",

volume = "36",

pages = "2831--2840",

journal = "Atmospheric Environment",

issn = "1352-2310",

publisher = "Elsevier Ltd",

number = "17",

}

TY - JOUR

T1 - Characterization of pollution events observed at Schauinsland, Germany, using CO and its stable isotopes

AU - Gros, Valérie

AU - Jöckel, P.

AU - Brenninkmeijer, C. A.M.

AU - Röckmann, T.

AU - Meinhardt, F.

AU - Graul, R.

PY - 2002/1/1

Y1 - 2002/1/1

N2 - CO concentration and its isotopic composition (13C, 14C, 17O and 18O) are used to characterize air pollution events observed at Schauinland, Germany, in August 2000. After determination of the background signal, we could identify and characterize five pollution events. Particularly, 14CO and δ18O variations help to determine the nature of the pollution source (fossil fuel or biomass combustion) and its origin (local or regional/continental). By using a box model, further information about the age of the polluted air mass is derived. We particularly establish that one polluted air mass was about 10 days old and that this event was due to long-range transport of products emitted from forest fires in Canada.

AB - CO concentration and its isotopic composition (13C, 14C, 17O and 18O) are used to characterize air pollution events observed at Schauinland, Germany, in August 2000. After determination of the background signal, we could identify and characterize five pollution events. Particularly, 14CO and δ18O variations help to determine the nature of the pollution source (fossil fuel or biomass combustion) and its origin (local or regional/continental). By using a box model, further information about the age of the polluted air mass is derived. We particularly establish that one polluted air mass was about 10 days old and that this event was due to long-range transport of products emitted from forest fires in Canada.

KW - Biomass burning

KW - Box model

KW - Carbon monoxide

KW - Fossil fuel combustion

KW - Isotopic composition

UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/0036017386

U2 - 10.1016/S1352-2310(02)00144-9

DO - 10.1016/S1352-2310(02)00144-9

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:0036017386

SN - 1352-2310

VL - 36

SP - 2831

EP - 2840

JO - Atmospheric Environment

JF - Atmospheric Environment

IS - 17

ER -

Characterization of pollution events observed at Schauinsland, Germany, using CO and its stable isotopes

Abstract

Funding

Keywords

Access to Document

Other files and links

Fingerprint

Cite this